[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

Sebastian Moors mauser at smoors.de
Thu Aug 4 20:55:09 UTC 2011


On 04.08.2011 21:39, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
> 2. More interrestingly, the "appeal to famous artists" didn't seem to
> be well received... What seems to come out though is that although the
> FOSS community seems to be good to produce software, we don't seem to
> be good at advertising it :)
> - Ardour has...49 followers on facebook... Nothing on the wall...
> - Hydrogen...94...and one entry on the wall...
> - Couldn't find a # tag for any of these on Twitter...
>
Hi Aurélien,

as a developer of hydrogen let me chime in here.. I think it could be a 
good idea
to think a little bit about the "marketing" of our applications. At the 
moment
the presentation of hydrogen is more or less restricted to our homepage 
and our mailing lists.
I've posted rarely to a facebook group (i think you didn't find it), but 
that was all. It's hard and cumbersome to use all channels at once 
(twitter, google+, etc...) if all you want to do is publish a release 
notification or something like this..
> I know I know, we are not advertisers, we are developers!
> But what if a small group of us (and yeah, including me :)) would do that?
Do you have any specific ideas there? Maybe a "linux audio booth" at 
fairs would be a nice idea as a joined project. I had this idea earlier 
for hydrogen, but it is very hard for one small project to organize (and 
pay for) such an event.
- Sebastian


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